Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-10-27
DRINKS OF ALL NATIONS.
THE EASILY GOVERNED NATIONS
DRINK NO STRONG LIQUORS.

Curious Observations of the Man Who
Went Around the World ON a Bicycle.
GuzzIing Habits OF the Aggressive Ma
tions.
Taken all in all, perhaps the English
residents in India spend more money for
drink than any other people in the world
Plenty of people are, of course, ready to
condemn this sort of thing, and say the
Anglo Indians ought to quench their thirst
with non-intoxicants. More lemonade aud
less brandy and champage, it is claimed,
would materially lessen the rate of NOR
tality from enlarged spleen, the bane of
Anglo-lndian life. This may be strictly
true, but the fact remains that mere
handful of hard drinking Britons are adj
ministering the affairs of 200, 600, 900 prac-
tically non-drinking people.
Some of the natives of India consume
more or less arrack and palm toddy, but
the Brahmins, the gentlest and easiest
governed people in tho world, drink moth
ing stronger than water The only tribe
of people in India who drink to excess are
the Eats of the Punjab. The festive Jat
gets drunk on arrack, and indulges in
manly sports like a civilized being. On
the field of battle he is equal to a round
dozen non-drink!ng Hindoos, and forms
today the flower of the native British-In-
dian army. He it was that stood firmly
by the English during the mutiny. and
performed prodigies of yalor scarcely
second TO Tommy Atkins himself. He
calls the water drinking natives of Dude
and Bengal ''poorbeahs," and is superior
to them in every manly attribute.
In N1or1 4..f.
alcohol is consumed in proportion to The
number of people. The Koran denies the
seductive pleasures of its material para
disc to Mussulmans who indulge in the
flowing bowl of Bacchus here below. The
Shiahs are considered the Catholics of the
Mohammedan religion. The whole Per-
sian nation belong to the Shah faith It's
1O,OOO,OOO of people are governed with the
same ease as the same number of sheen
might be by a few officials who care moth
ing for their welfare except to squeeze
them like an orange whenever they feel
like it. The 100000 never touch any
thing Intoxicating from one years end to
another. The governing few consume raw.
fiery arrack by the pint daily in wanton
disregard of the Koran and its teachings.
The village khan and subordinate COVER
nor of province keeps by him stock Of
n
pint with his midday meal to stimulate
his appetite and make himself feel boozy
while eating, and is frequently put to bed
limp as q dishrag by his retainers Mt night.
The Japs arc the most encouraging ex-
amples that the east presents of a nation
progressing from ASiatic to an European
plane of civilization. They bid fair ere
many years to be more European in their
habits than the majority of Europeans
themselves. One wouldn't care to assert
that the vast quantity of sake consumed
by the japanese has anything to do with
their superiority in this particular over all
other Asiatics. / am merely pointing out
facts, leaving the reader to draw his or her
own conclusions therefrom.
No nation in Asia drinks SO persistently
and steadily as do the japanese. The
average Jap consumes about half q pint
of sake or rice beer with each meal-a
pint and half per day-saying nothing
about further social indulgence in the
evening. Both men and women drink
sake by the pint daily, and think no harm
of it, either. At meal times the sake is
served up in slender, big necked earthen-
ware bottles, holding about a pint. The
favorite way is to drink it warm Tt is
usually warmed by setting the bottle in
boiling water for while before putting it
on the table. Rice beer is a rather de-
ceptive name to give sake, as it resembles
liquor more than beer, both in color. con-
sistency and intoxicating property In
the consumption of alcohol the JAMS. as n
nation, rank way ahead of any other
Asiatic country. In addition to sake.
they are also rapidly coming to the fore
as consumers of beer and brandy and
whisky. Their consumption of these
beverages keeps curiously even pace
with their progression toward what we
are pleased to consider our own higher
plane of civilization. When they first be-
gan to think of wearing European clothes
they contented themselves with import
ing French brandy and English and Mil
waukee beer Now, however, the GOV
ernment compels all its officials to adopt
European clothes, and the upper crust So
ciety at Toxic are far from being alone in
Europeanizing their habits and costumes.
Consequently the Japs have commenced
brewing their, own beer and making n
very good imitation Of French brandy.
The Chinese as q nation consume very
little intoxicating drink. although fl,ev
make a beverage from rice called sstorri;'
almost the counterpart of the sake of
Japan. Whenever there has been war
between the two nations the Japs have in
NaFtaDly WauOpeu JOnn Chlnaman almost
as thoroughly as the arrack drinking Jats
of the Punjab were wont to make things
warm for the total sustaining Hindoos in
'57, and before.
The Turks are nation that drink next
to nothing Of a stimulating character. nm
less tiny cups Of strong black coffee NAV
be so considered. AS Mohammedans they
are less sanctfmonious but more consistent
than the Persians. The Osmanh Official
sometimes indulges in mastic. but Il he
does he consumes it in the guisc Of lnedi-
cine, the prohibitive voice Of the Koran
not including alcohol used as medicine.
The Turks are brave and warlike, and If.
when their star Of empire was in the
ascendaney and their crescent banner
dOated over half Europe. they had for
saken the pr0hibitfve tenefs OF the Koran
and went into brewing and drinking beer
and whisky. who knows Int flarf flse1